11/11/04 12:28 - ID#31421

Coral Polyps are Animals as are Anenomes

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I can't believe that you are even questioning this without fully understanding the situation. You definitely do not have nay background in biology and are starting to "classify" things based on phenotype (patterns they physically express instead) of their genotype (genetic makeup which defines their relationships to others). Note, this is the same kind of biology the nazis used to classify the jews as separate animals. And that relying on genetic relationships can work. Just as by looking at a kid you cannot determine his parents, you can determine them more absolutely using genetic testing.

Corals Polyps are animals, just like anemones:

ANIMALS:. They have locomotive ability (without growth requirement), no chloroplasts, no cell wall, heterotrophic (eat others).

PLANTS: Not locomotive (without growth), have chloroplasts, autotrophic.

Baby coral polyps are not like seeds, they don't just float but rather have their own locomotive ability, just like anemones they can move on whim. The reason for the misunderstanding with coral using photosynthesis, is that tiny algae live in their colonies which they get energy from. It is similar to the symbiotic relationship we have with e. coli in our intestines, yet no one would argue that having bacteria help us digest food makes a bacteria, right?

Can one of you biology freaks back me up?

PS terry the tree isn't even a colony. It is an actual full scale multi-organed animal. Just look up anthozoa (GOOGLE - anthozoa) And one last thing, the coral reefs of today did develop until the time of the dinosaurs so they are not some sort of pro-animal, but rather just an evolution of one.

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11/10/04 05:15 - ID#31420

The andalu project

I was working for a "cousin" (I'm italian) doing some web design for a clothing site. It was very promising but the dude couldn't decide on a look or a logo, which was making me crazy. This was by far one of the most annoying project I ever worked on. at one point he wanted it to be dark and goth, then skater, then sexy, there was even a westernb phase. It was such a nightmare project that was never completed. I suggest that if any of you ever work on a project you make sure all of the details are finalized up front, even if it is your "cousin."

This is the flow chart I had made to explain the site. My fav part was the headphones, which was a high tech feat for me back then.

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11/10/04 04:10 - ID#31418

Where I teach

This is one of the classrooms that I teach in. It is nice cause it only has 14 spots.

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11/10/04 04:02 - ID#31417

More stuff I Found on the Office Comp

Here is a picture of me I found. I know (e:terry) hates this one but I liek it. maybe its time to go back to the goatee.

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11/10/04 03:41 - ID#31416

Vaio Reborn

After ripping the vaio mini apart the other day, it had come to life once again. I think hybrid computers with parts from various other machines seem touch. Sometimes I feel like our house is the computer version of the swan studio at fox.

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Category: design

11/10/04 03:15 - ID#31415

Xylophone

I was cleaning up my office computer this afternoon and found a couple of unfinished projects. One was a fixed up model from my pull-a-tune project. I re-rendered it for nostalgia's sake and processed it with photoshop.

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11/10/04 01:32 - ID#31414

Terrorist Attack on Elmwood

Well, its not real but doesn't this screen shot from the web cam look like the church on lafayette and elmwood got firebombed. It only the street light. Wait maybe I should really look out the window before I confirm that!

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11/10/04 12:46 - ID#31413

I am not a CAT

This is so messed up. I was talking with (e:twisted) on my phone (IM) we she notified me that my icon was of a cat. Everyone knows I hate cats and furthermore (e:twisted) has the crazy cat thing going on in her life right now. And here I am unknowingly a crazy maniac cat face peering out over IM without even knowing. What is up with that. I think I caught the icon at UB using ichat in the classroom.

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11/10/04 02:38 - ID#31412

This is insane

I cannot believ it this jorunal

. Maybe I don't even believe it, but if it's true it means a whole of for the state of Amerika.

A couple of weeks ago, following the last presidential debate, I said some rather inflammatory things about George W. Bush in a public post in my LJ, done in a satirical style. We laughed, we ranted, we all said some things. I thought it was a fairly harmless (and rather obvious) attempt at humor in the face of annoyance, and while a couple of people were offended, as is typical behavior from me, I saw something shiny and forgot about it, thinking that the whole thing was over and done and nothing else would come of what I said.

I was wrong.

At 9:45 last night, the Secret Service showed up on my mother's front door to talk to me about what I said about the President, as what I said could apparently be misconstrued as a threat to his life. After about ten minutes of talking to me and my family, they quickly came to the conclusion that I was not a threat to national security (mostly because we are the least threatening people in the entire world) and told me that they would not recommend that any further action be taken with my case. However, I do now have a file with the FBI that includes my photograph, my e-mail address, and the location of my LJ. This will follow me around for the rest of my life, regardless of the fact that the Secret Service knows that I am not a threat.

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11/09/04 11:01 - ID#31411

CFA or hospital

Does the CFA at UB remind anyone else of a hospital or insane asylum? If so, who picked hospital aesthetic and thought it was a good idea? More importantly, what is the connection between aesthetic and anaesthetic?